With
more than 20 years of work experience at various charitable
organizations, Amy Phillips has acquired an understanding for many
aspects of nonprofit management. Most recently she served as Gift
Registrar for the Smithsonian Institution; Phillips’ prior
experience in institutional advancement has included positions at
two colleges, a museum and a “think tank” in Washington, D.C., as
well as various contractual/consulting opportunities. An active CASE
member, Phillips has earned “faculty star” citations as a presenter
at several conferences, including the annual Summer Institute in
Advancement Services. She has also given presentations on software
utilization tricks, best office practices and matching gift
processes for the Millennium user community, as well
as the Association for Advancement Services Professionals [AASP].
She is an active Founding Member of AASP, serving on the Board as
membership chair and member of the Ethics Committee. Amy is
currently consulting with organizations in the DC area as she
pursues her next career challenge.

Brian
Dowling has invested more than 20 years working in Advancement and
Development Services, Finance, Administration and Operations managing systems, gift processing, records, web
sites, research, and other functions that help to support effective
fundraising and constituent engagement.

Brian joined the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation in 2008 as Senior
Vice President for Finance and Information Systems and is responsible for
managing finance, administration and operations and deploying creative
solutions to help the Foundation achieve its
fundraising and engagement goals.

Brian worked previously at the University of Michigan and was
responsible for managing the technological infrastructure, gift
processing and records administration for the Office of University
Development in support of a $3.1 billion campaign. The database
contained over 1,000,000 entities and average revenue was $250-$370
million representing approximately 184,000 gift transactions.

Prior to that, Brian worked at The University of Toronto. The
university’s $1 billion campaign was Canada’s largest and most
successful philanthropic effort in higher education. The database of
over 700,000 entities supported a large scale advancement operation.

Brian has also worked at a number of institutions in both the United
States and Canada, where he gained understanding, knowledge and
perspectives of managing in small, medium and large shops. This
experience included multiple system conversions, web site
development, budgetary and financial responsibilities, operations
management and more. He has consulted in the United States, Canada,
Asia
and Australia, written numerous articles and presents regularly at
conferences.

Please contact
Brian Dowling directly for information on services that we
can provide.

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traffic, resource focused web properties in the higher education and
non-profit spaces.
The site is focused towards people working in advancement and
development services, annual fund and operations but includes a
substantial array of resources for fundraising and constituent
engagement.

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